Verse 52

and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, `Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep;

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 23:27 : 27 And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
  • John 11:4 : 4 and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
  • John 11:11-13 : 11 These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' 12 therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;' 13 but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
  • Gen 23:2 : 2 and Sarah dieth in Kirjath-Arba, which `is' Hebron, in the land of Caanan, and Abraham goeth in to mourn for Sarah, and to bewail her.
  • Gen 27:34-35 : 34 When Esau heareth the words of his father, then he crieth a very great and bitter cry, and saith to his father, `Bless me, me also, O my father;' 35 and he saith, `Thy brother hath come with subtilty, and taketh thy blessing.'
  • Exod 24:17 : 17 And the appearance of the honour of Jehovah `is' as a consuming fire on the top of the mount, before the eyes of the sons of Israel;
  • 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, `My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'
  • Jer 9:17-21 : 17 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come, 18 And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow. 19 For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles. 20 But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation. 21 For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing; 39 and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;